Creating Enlarged Elevation Views and Adding Legends on the Sheet

Now that we've created a couple of enlarged elevation views, giving them the right names and all that stuff, let's go ahead and put them on the sheet. If you remember, we laid out this thing and created a 602 for enlarged elevations. So I'm going to jump to that sheet here.

And one of the things that we should include on here, because we will have Material Tags and we will be showing the materials, is that Material Legend we created. And the best way that I can think of to do that would be to jump over to one of our elevation sheets, copy it to clipboard using that CTRL+C or Copy to Clipboard option, and then jumping back over to A602 from the Modify tab and then pasting Aligned to Current View.

And the reason I do that is because now every time we use that Exterior Material Legend, it's going to be in the exact same spot on every single sheet that we use it. So that, as a first step, kind of helps us get things rolling. The next thing we can do to make sure again that we have the legends that we're using in the same location is we can jump over to any sheet that has our Keynote Legend.

And I can copy that to clipboard, jump back over to A602 and do the same process where we paste Aligned to Current View. Now we're kind of setting ourselves up to have our little row of notes and symbols and anything that we're going to have over here is now reserved so that we can put our views on this sheet and not have it be a major issue. So let's go ahead and add our first one.

So I'm going to scroll up to our elevation section in the Project Browser here and Enlarged Curtain Wall Elevation. I'm going to go ahead and drag that across and I'll place it up here in the top right. And it looks pretty good.

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I think there's a couple of things that we can modify here. I think, you know, having top parapet and roof and Level One and Two so close to the building there is a bit much. And then our section tag—this is up for debate—may or may not be needed for this view.

The next thing is kind of seeing the earth here—not what we want to see in this particular view. And then also this is the roof screen beyond, and that's not really part of that view. So I'm going to go ahead and double-click in here and I'm going to make a couple of changes.

So there are a few things that need to be reinforced here. We've talked about them in previous courses, but that was a while ago. So I want to make sure that we're all on the same page here.

If I were to take this Crop Region and say, move it out really far, like I've done here, that modification that I've done is actually going to take place in the actual North Elevation view. If I go to the North Elevation view now, you can see I've messed with this. And same thing, if I go in here and say, oh wait, we want this to just be that large, right? Well, when I go back to this view, it clearly changes it.

So that interoperability between those two views is important to remember because you could be working on something with a goal in mind and how you want it to be, and then somebody else can pop in and say, oh, actually, no, we want this to be that wide, whereas the reality is now we're showing the callout all the way across here instead of what we originally intended, which was just past Grid Lines 3 and 4. And so that's something to keep in mind. It's a really easy mistake to make and something you'll want to avoid doing because it could create a lot of problems in the future.

So I'm going to jump back over to A602 and we're going to make a couple of adjustments here. So the top of parapet roof, Level One, Level Two—like I mentioned—are just too close. We'll move those over.

I need to keep in mind what's happening over here. If that means adjusting this view location so that nothing's really popping into the Keynotes bar or this invisible line that we're not really drawing, but we want to obey over here, then I need to do that. And same thing with the section—it’s just not part of what this view is.

You could leave it or you could adjust it so it looks better, that's up to you. I'm going to take it off because I think it's just going to get in the way of all the notes that we're going to have here. And the other thing is too, just making sure we've got this set up the way we want.

So as we're adjusting it, we might need to make some changes as we go through. So the next thing is the roof screen. I'm going to go and hide it.

And I use keyboard shortcut EH, and that allows me to hide things that are beyond. You can see we're just really peeling the layers of an onion here. And so the best way to do that, instead of going through and hiding things like I've done—especially the roof screen—is we can look at the View Depth and you can see the far clip settings are Same as Parent Elevation.

And so you can leave them so that they're the same as the Parent Elevation or you can go in and say, we can make those independent. And that allows me to now have control over my far clip settings, which right now are set to No Clip. And so if I say Clip Without Line or Clip With Line, then it'll give me the option to adjust the depth that I have set here.

And so instead of 142 feet, 3 inches and 41/64ths, I could adjust that to say 15 feet and see what we get. Clearly that's not going to work because when we look at our Floor Plan, where my North Elevation tag is, it's going to be too far outside of what we're trying to accomplish here. And so if my North Elevation tag, which isn't even showing on this view, is further than 15 feet away—which clearly it is—then we have to make an adjustment.

So you can see here, my North Elevation tag is way up here. And so the dimension, roughly from that—if I use this Tape Measure tool—I can kind of take a guess at it. But so anything that's greater than 30 or less than 32 feet isn't going to show the building roughly, right? But if the screen is back here and I only want to show stuff from here to there, then I can pick a number like 40 or 50 feet and that should work.

Alternatively, you can just sit here and guess at it all day and get something. But I think it's best to go in and say, okay, well, let's go with 45 feet and see what that gives us. And we've got some type of a graphic on that's really starting to show this thing a little bit differently.

If I say like 60 feet, we'll start to get into a point where we're going to see that. So like 140 was the number that we had before, and you can see it's starting to pull us in a little closer. But we can make adjustments to the graphic look of this.

So the Graphic Display Options—because if we're using something like Depth Cueing—this is going to fade pretty quickly here, the near and the far. And so for this Elevation view, I can go ahead and turn that off. And that's going to give me a little bit more control over the way my view looks.

You can see no matter what, if this is set to 500 feet, or if it's set to 45 feet, the view is going to look the same. But if we have that Depth Cueing on, it's going to cue based upon how far away from that Elevation tag we have, and it's going to start fading things that are off into the distance. And that is not something that we want for an enlarged view, because the goal here is to try to communicate in a larger scale, like quarter inch, what's going on with this Curtain Wall pattern, where we show a full module between grids here.

So with all that in mind, we can kind of use the same principles as we go through and create the Enlarged View—the Enlarged Window Elevation. So I'm just going to tidy this up a little bit, kind of move the tag around, extend the View Title—just the same basic stuff that we've done in the class over and over and over again. And because this is just getting a little too tight, I'm going to slide it over, just so that we don't have it super far, or super close to this guy here.

So the next thing will be the Enlarged Window Elevation. I can pull that one onto the sheet, and I'm going to justify it to the right here, and have it kind of somewhere in this location. In this case, the goal is to try to communicate the window size and what it looks like in here.

So our goal is going to be to make sure that this thing is shown as clearly as possible. So I want to do the same things that we did before—pull the Roof tag out, and then give ourselves a little bit of breathing room with the View Title, and then I can kind of slide this over. And what I like to do is, even if it's not perfect, I like to just draw a guideline here, and get these tags lined up, and we can use our snaps, which is nice, to grab things within the view, and I can slide that over, and now I've got them all lined up and justified the way that I'd like to see it.

So first view I placed was number one, second view was number two, and so now what we've done is—I'm going to give myself a little bit more room there—what we've done is we've set up our enlarged elevation sheet with these two views, and just like before, I'm going to hit Save, and then what we can do in the next videos, we can kind of jump back and make sure that we're getting the documentation on our overall views for the Elevations set up, and then we can jump into getting the rest of these all set up, because we're going to need the same Keynotes that we're going to create for those views to be in here.